{"id":321,"date":"2016-02-10T21:55:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T21:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/?page_id=321"},"modified":"2019-01-31T19:22:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T19:22:11","slug":"louise-hall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/?page_id=321","title":{"rendered":"Louise Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_162\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/louise_hall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-162\" class=\"wp-image-162 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/louise_hall-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"louise_hall\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/louise_hall-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/louise_hall.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise Hall<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Louise Hall is an Irish writer who lives in Malahide, Co. Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Her first work of non-fiction,<strong> Medjugorje: What it Means to Me<\/strong>, was published by The Columba Press in 2012 and has been very widely received.<\/p>\n<p>She has written a second book,<strong> Medjugorje and Me<\/strong>, also published by Columba in 2014. \u00a0This book is a collection of testimonies and short stories from people all around the world, about their experiences of Medjugorje, and includes Louise&#8217;s own experiences from her visits. \u00a0<strong>Medjugorje and Me<\/strong> was also published in Italian by Edizioni Piemme in May 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Her first work of fiction,<strong> Pilgrim<\/strong>, was picked up by Mercier Press &#8211; Ireland&#8217;s oldest publishing house. \u00a0We are continuing our search for a publisher for her other yet to be published novels,<strong> For One<\/strong> <strong>Last Time<\/strong> and <strong>Beyond the Big House<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from publishing her non-fiction books on Medjugorje, Louise has written for <em>The Sunday Independent<\/em>, <em>The Irish Independent<\/em>,<em> Woman&#8217;s Way<\/em>, <em>The Medjugorje Herald<\/em>, <em>The Malahide Gazette<\/em> and <em>The Irish News<\/em>. \u00a0She has also appeared on RTE &#8211; both on radio and television and has contributed to RTE Radio 1&#8217;s &#8220;The God Slot&#8221; program, doing book reviews, theatre reviews, interviews, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Louise has been shortlisted for the <em>Colm Toibin International Short Story Competition 2016<\/em>, the <em>Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Awards 2014<\/em> and long listed for the <em>RTE Guide\/Penguin Short Story Awards<\/em> in 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2015, Louise was runner up for the<em> New Talent Award<\/em> at the <em>Love Stories Awards <\/em>which were held in London.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2016, <em>The Irish Times<\/em> newspaper published her short story, <strong>&#8216;Frankie&#8217;s List&#8217;<\/strong> as part of their <strong>&#8217;12 Stories of Christmas<\/strong>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<div>You can find out more by visiting her website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.louisehall.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.louisehall.ie<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2>Louise Hall Books<\/h2>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-607\" src=\"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ipad-Photos-793-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ipad-Photos-793-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ipad-Photos-793-768x1163.jpg 768w, https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ipad-Photos-793-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ipad-Photos-793-624x945.jpg 624w, https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Ipad-Photos-793.jpg 1353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-611\" src=\"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo-8-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo-8-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/photo-8.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-796\" src=\"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pilgrim-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pilgrim-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/traceliteraryagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pilgrim.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louise Hall is an Irish writer who lives in Malahide, Co. 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